Ten Million Mattresses?
There’s a commercial that’s been airing recently touting the benefits of the Tempurpedic bed. This magical space-age memory foam apparently “contours” to your body, negating the need for a spring mattress and, supposedly, providing a more comfortable night’s sleep.
Then they hit you with a shocking statistic. From what I’m led to believe apparently Tempurpedic sells “one mattress every sixty seconds.”
Woah, hold on there partner. One mattress every sixty seconds? Is the woman included in the sales price? Let me run some numbers here…
Breaking out the calculator and figuring that Tempurpedic sells 60 mattresses per hour, that comes out to 720 every twelve hours. That’s 262,800 mattresses sold every year. My God, that’s (*button mash* *calculate* *carry the two…*) 10,249,200 mattresses since 1970.
That means that over 3.5% of the U.S. population owns a Tempurpedic mattress.
To put this into perspective, 25% of the U.S. considers themselves Catholic, 15% of the population is Hispanic, 12% are living at the poverty level, and 12% are 65 years old or older.
Again, 3.5% of the population owns (or owned at one time) one of these mattresses? Can this be right? Personally, I don’t know of anybody who owns a Tempurpedic product. Now, I’m sure my numbers here aren’t bombproof, but if I’m even close to the ballpark, it’s a stunning figure.
